Institutions in Global Distributive Justice

The first systematic treatment of the role of institutions in cosmopolitan theories of distributive justice

Defining an institution as a public system of rules that sets out positions, rights and duties, Andras Miklos uses a philosophical argument to analyse the roles that social, economic and political institutions play in conditioning the justification, scope and content of principles of justice. He critically evaluates a number of positions about the role of institutions in generating requirements of distributive justice and considers their implications for the scope - global or otherwise - of justice. He then develops a new theory about the role political and economic institutions play in determining the content of requirements of distributive justice and, in a cosmopolitan argument against statist positions, shows how they can affect the scope of application of these requirements.

Contents

Analytical Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Nationalist theories of justiceChapter 3. The political conception of justiceChapter 4. Rawlsian justice and the Law of PeoplesChapter 5. Rawlsian justice globalisedChapter 6. Non-relational cosmopolitan theoriesChapter 7. Institutions and the application of principles of justiceConclusionBibliographyIndex

About the Author

András Miklós teaches at the Department of Philosophy and the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester. Prior to this position, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health. He received his PhD from Central European University, and has held fellowships at the European University Institute, the University of Oxford, and the University of Oslo.